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Opes Prime directors admit guilt

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... were placed into administration and receivers and managers were appointed. OPSL and Leveraged Capital had more than 650 active client accounts and creditors were owed approximately $630 million when they collapsed.

PIMCO urges SMSFs to get active

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... alternatives might be to the detriment of returns. "Given the dislocations and upheaval in global financial markets since the GFC, active managers are better placed to add value than they have been for a number of years," said Libby Newman, senior investment ...

Certitude partners with Threadneedle on global fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... Certitude completed a 12 month review of 4000 funds in search of the ideal fund to introduce to the retail market. "We needed active managers that showed genuine consistency and outperformed benchmarks for at least a seven year time frame," Craig Mowll ...

Fidelity sees market ripe for growth investments

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... remains in the market. As part of its Australian-Equities large cap sector review, S&P downgraded the Ausbil Australian active equity fund and Perennial growth shares wholesale trust to four stars, leaving Fidelity alone at the top of the tree. Taylor ...

BTIM extends global presence with $10bn manager buy

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... Management in a $314 million deal that gives it access to a host of new markets. J O Hambro Capital Management is a boutique active equity manager with $10.7 billion in funds under management, which has worked hard to establish itself beyond the UK and ...

Continuum sees value as active managers scrape past benchmark

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... fund, which returned 29.4%. Mercer's survey highlighted a disappointing year for Australian share funds, with the average active manager outperforming the benchmark by just 0.1%, well shy of the 1.3% long-term average. Continuum partners Brett McElwee ...

REST focused on long term after posting healthy returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... Industry Super's core strategy achieved returns of 9.56% for the last financial year, which the fund attributed to its active management style, while its tax-free core pension strategy returned 10.71%. The $20 billion hospitality industry fund posted ...

ASIC warns it will act on rogue ETF pricing

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... through agreed compliance action was achieved in 13 of the 22 cases. In the report, the regulator said it was increasingly active in identifying problem algorithms and was working to ensure retail client orders for ETFs were appropriately priced. "We ...

Qantas signs up Russell for FX trades

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Qantas Superannuation has outsourced its foreign exchange trades for active global equities and alternatives to Russell Implementation Services (RIS). Qantas Super, the trustee of the airlines $6 billion fund, has appointed RIS to provide agency foreign ...

BetaShares targets active ETF traders

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... Drew Corbett, head of investment strategy and distribution, BetaShares. Corbett said that there was a real opportunity for active traders to capitalise on a sideways moving market, benefiting from index and sector performance rather than that of individual ...